| Gavin Newsom is the Mayor of San Francisco, and a big fan of new media. He twittered his daughter's birth, and writes frequently at Huffington Post, ARSTechnica, Daily Kos, and even Calitics on occasion.
But, perhaps I got that wrong, because, you know, blogs are often wrong:
"That's just factually incorrect," Newsom said Friday following an unrelated press conference in City Hall. "Though blogs often are." (SF Examiner 10/4/09)
The knock on Gavin Newsom has always been that he doesn't take criticism very well. And that is exactly what this was about. StreetsBlog had published a story saying that Newsom was putting his finger on the scale of whether to increase parking meter hours. In response to a question at a press conference, we got the above answer.
As something of an epilogue, Matier and Ross published a very similar story on Monday. I wonder what the response to a question concerning that article will be. Something about the environmental impact of killing all those trees to print the Chronicle I suppose. |
